What you really want to do is have a battery system that you can charge by solar energy. Running stuff directly from solar panels is difficult...

Or, even better, a rusty old WW2 ex-Army Jeep with a PTO generator that can both blow out tons of smelly exhaust AND make an unholy racket at the same time.

The first vid is good. The second I thought he was going to say something about solar power. ;)
Just as your diaries communicate simple under-our-noses truth, (and are largely ignored), so it is with the answer to our most pressing and primal need for energy that is created without fouling our nest.
Falling all around us in a golden rain, yet on we pollute, trapped in a paradigm created in the dawn of the petro-boom, our grandfathers' solution to their grandfathers' problems, when a few noxious  fumes seemed a tiny price to pay to get all that horseshit out of the city streets.
I salute your vision, intelligence and tenacity Gmoke.
Long may you run...

It's a fine line between homage, parody, and consumer opportunism. Jess Walter